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Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now....
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Hampton Roads Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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For anyone curious about the teachings of Buddha and modern Buddhist practice, Tell Me Something about Buddhism offers the perfect introduction. Written by Soto Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and organized in an easy-to-use question and answer format, this brief book answers the many common questions people have about Buddhism, everything from who was Buddha to why do monks, nuns, and priests shave their heads. --Publisher.
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The Meridian Trust
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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H.H. The Dalai Lama teaches about the truth of suffering, the Three Characteristics of Existence, and the dissolution of the body's elements at death. Meditating on impermanence and the momentary changing nature of existence helps viewers appreciate the basic unsatisfactory nature of existence, and strive towards liberation. Causally produced things all depend on causes and conditions which contain within them the seeds of their own disintegration....
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A provocative essay challenging the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism, from one of the world's most widely respected philosophers and writers on Buddhism and science. Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, and celebrities promoting the notion that...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Many of us, even on our happiest days, struggle to quiet the constant buzz of anxiety in the background of our minds. All kinds of worries--worries about losing people and things, worries about how we seem to others--keep us from peace of mind. Distracted or misled by our preoccupations, misconceptions, and, most of all, our obsession with ourselves, we don't see the world clearly--we don't see the world as it really is. In our search for happiness...
12) How to smile
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Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A Zen master provides teachings, tools and meditations to practice during times of suffering to help promote transformation and healing within ourselves and also how to listen deeply and develop a greater capacity to understand the suffering of others.
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Wisdom Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Let's face it: we all have a motivating drive to become better. What we have and who we are never seem to be good enough. This feeling that something is wrong or needs to be fixed causes us to continuously run around, chasing after what we feel will finally fulfill us. But what if these very conditions that we are constantly trying to escape from could be used as a way to awaken ourselves-- to connect with the peace already within us? A Fool's Guide...
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Publisher
Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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"Understanding Our Mind is an accessible guide for anyone who is curious about the inner workings of the mind. Originally released as Transformation at the Base, this work on Buddhist applied psychology features a new introduction by Dharma teacher Reb Anderson." "Understanding Our Mind is based on fifty verses on the nature of consciousness taken from the great fifth-century Buddhist master Vasubandhu. Nhat Hanh reveals how these ancient teachings...
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Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Aging isn't easy. But it can still be filled with joy-maybe even more joy than we expect... Susan Moon offers a Zen approach to facing our impermanence. Joining levity with tenderness, Moon shares stories from her own life-including knee replacements, Zoom chats with grandchildren, the loss of friends, and a season as a Zen monk in the wilderness-to show that strength can come from within, sometimes unexpectedly, even as our bodies fail. These field...
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